Special Events

Not necessarily our own, but exciting happenings in the region which we wanted to share...

​Discover Tuesdays

Don't miss these incredible films from around the world screening on Tuesday nights at Harbour Lights, Picturehouse.

Discover stunning cinema. Whether it's a cult classic, an art-house gem or a riveting documentary, there will always be a chance to see something different and brilliant in this weekly slot. ​

The next Discover Tuesdays screening is 'Makala'​A young man from a village in the Congo hopes to offer his family a better future. His only resources are his own two hands, the surrounding bush, and an iron will. When he sets out on an exhausting, perilous journey to sell the fruit of his labor, he discovers the true value of his efforts, and the price of his dreams. Winner of the Critics Week grand prize at Cannes 2017.

​​DVMISSION 48 Hour Film Challenge

DVMISSION is inviting filmmakers of any age and any experience to sign up for Portsmouth's twelfth DVMISSION 48 Hour Film Challenge.

It is really as simple as (1) registering with DV Mission - The 48 Hour Film Challenge (2) get some friends together with a camera and make a film over one weekend from 9th-11th March (3) then screen your film at DVMISSIONS glittering gala and awards ceremony on 17th March at The Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea.​For more information visit:http://www.dvmission.co.uk

Past Events​

​Silent Film Fortnight​

Turner Sims in partnership with the University of Southampton’s Film and Music departments presents a three-part series focusing on the film heritage of the First World War. With introductions to each film, expert insights and guests, including two of the country’s leading silent film score performers, the series of screenings and talks will show the role cinema played in memorialising the war after the armistice, and reflect on cinema’s continued importance to our present day understanding of the conflict.

The Guns of Loos (1928) Sunday 11th February 2018 3pmSilent Film Screening with Live Music AccompanimentStephen Horne piano, Martin Pyne percussion

Dawn (1928) Tuesday 13th February 2018 7.30pmSilent Film Screening with Live Music AccompanimentComposer and pianist Andrew Fisher leads an ensemble in an improvised performance to accompany the film.

1918, At Home, At War Thursday 22nd February 2018 7.30pmSilent Film Screening with Live Music AccompanimentNeil Brandpiano

Film Hub South West

Get involved in Film Hub South West as part of the BFI's Film Audience Network!

The BFI Film Audience Network Boundaries are changing. From January 2018 Hampshire and Isle of Wight will sit within the South West region rather than South East. The South West Hub leader, Watershed in Bristol, is eager to hear from cinemas, cross art venues and film festivals as well as other relevant organisations and freelancers that share its ambitions towards a thriving and relevant cultural film exhibition sector. A sector which nurtures generations of filmgoers and remains in tune with new of ways of experiencing film and moving image that operate across the new region.

Earlier this year, the British Film Institute invited applications from organisations to take on the Film Hub Lead role for regions and nations as part of the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) for the period 2018 - 22, responding to priorities and criteria outlined in BFI2022. This includes greater responsibility around film festivals, community cinemas, talent development and changes in regional boundaries in England. Building on our successful leadership of Film Hub South West & West Midlands, Watershed leads on a bid for the period 2018-2022 for the South West area, which now includes Hampshire and Isle of Wight, previously part of Film Hub South East as illustrated on this map.

Join in a consultation session at Harbour Lights Picture House in Southampton for a chance to help us shape Film Hub South West from January 2018. FHSW wants to be responsive to regional contexts and needs, working collectively.

Date:Wednesday 4th October2017

Venue:Harbour Lights PicturehouseOcean VillageSouthamptonSO14 3TL

​Eastleigh Film Festival 2017​

This September Eastleigh Film Festival, curated by The Point, returns to the Borough with six days of memorable movie-going magic.Now in its fourth year, EFF has a reputation for staging iconic movies in locations to match, celebrating the joy of cult cinema. This year the festival presents a handful of carefully selected titles from across the decades, including Brian De Palma’s genre-defining Carrie, the Box-Office breaking Die Hard Trilogy and Kevin Smith’s seminal Mallrats.This year’s event welcomes industry experts to The Point for an inspiring Film Careers Morning. Director Neil Mcenery-West (Containment) and Actor Tom Wilton (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) will present workshops on Directing and Performance, alongside talks on Writing for the Screen and Editing. Created to offer participants an invaluable insight into filmmaking, this event is open to all seeking a career in film.Presenting bespoke screenings of cult classics, EFF will screen 19 films at 12 unique venues, breathing life into your favourite films this autumn.​

Dunkirk - 35mm screenings at Harbour Lights

If you're nostalgic for the pre-digital era - or if this is something you've only heard rumour of - then a rare treat is in store! Harbour Lights, Picturehouse are bringing out their 35mm projector this summer for the release of Christopher Nolan's latest film 'Dunkirk'.

We urge you to get along and enjoy the 35 mm projection (as the Director would prefer you to see it) - and celebrate a film that used locations along the south coast from Weymouth to Lee-on-Solent.

The mass evacuation of more than 330,000 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940 was one of the most dramatic and pivotal episodes of the Second World War. In his latest feature, director Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, The Dark Knight trilogy) plunges viewers into the thick of it with what he describes as “the most visceral experiential two hours that audiences can hope for”.

Told from three points of view – land, sea and air – Dunkirk unfolds with a palpable sense of dread and tension, evoking the very human and immediate desire to survive.

With cinematography from Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar), a score from Hans Zimmer, and an all-star supporting cast that includes Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Mark Rylance, this is the must-see spectacle of the summer.

The infamous bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, commemorated by Picasso's famous painting, led directly to the evacuation of four thousand Basque children to Britain. It was the largest single influx of refugees ever to arrive in this country and the first to consist solely of children. The British Government did not want them here - so it was that an enormous voluntary organisation stepped in to care for the children - much to the annoyance of the Government! Everybody expected their stay to be brief, but the conflict dragged on. By the end of the Spanish Civil War many of the children literally had nothing and nobody to return to and remained in Britain for a lifetime. This is the story of the Basque children - of those that returned to Spain and those that made Britain their home. It is the story of a remarkable grass-roots organisation that cared for them and the conflict it generated with a British Government which saw the children as a political embarrassment.

In this R.T.S. award-winning documentary film, eye witness accounts are mixed with expert analysis, dramatic reconstruction and previously un-screened archive footage to tell the story of The Guernica Children.

​The film screening will be followed by a Q&A including the film'sdirector Steve Bowles, Simon Martinez from the Basque Children'sAssociation and Mike Brown from CLEAR - a human-rights organizationworking with asylum-seekers and refugees in Southampton today.

EMBRACE - International Women's Day

Film Screening:

Embrace follows body image activist Taryn Brumfitt's crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to change the way we feel about ourselves and think about our bodies.​​Promoted by Vie Portland. This is a Demand film; this means that it can only go ahead if a certain amount of tickets are reserved first, so, please, reserve your tickets as soon as possible; no money will be taken from your account until the event is confirmed.

There will be goodie bags for at least the first 100 people! The screening will start promptly at 6.45pm.

"Film Expo South is a fantastic event. As a speaker I found my panel had an exceptional range of experience and expertise. As an attendee I was bowled over... Next year I'll arrive early and clear my diary for a full and long day."Phil Attfield - VFX and Animation Partnership Manager at NextGen Skills Academy

​​Documentary Film Screening

Baka - A Cry from the Rainforest

“This is a sublime film – warm, human, beautiful to watch, filmed with intense love and achingly sad” The Times

As part of the Royal Anthropology Institutes Film Festival Ambassadors programme we are going to be screening Phil Agland’s Baka: A Cry From the Rainforest

A quarter century after his award-winning documentary Baka: People Of The Rainforest, Phil Agland revisits the same Baka family in the Cameroon. For the first time they watch the film he made of them, delighted in seeing lost ones brought back to life. They’re also astonished to have a glimpse into how they used to live. For in the span of a single generation, Agland discovers that the Baka people’s lifestyles have dramatically changed. The rainforest, once so abundant with game, is now depleted by hunters and timber companies, and the Baka are losing their hunting skills. They’re also being decimated by a homegrown alcohol that is highly addictive and wiping out the menfolk. With the women now becoming addicted, it is even taking its toll on young, and unborn children. Inspired by the film, the Baka men embark on a journey into the forest to reconnect with the old way of life of their fathers.

The screening will be introduced with a short talk on the context of the film and its history at 6.30pm and will be followed by the screening at 7pm (duration 90mins). ​There will be a short Q&A opportunity post screening.

​30th Year Launch

You are invited to launch our 30th anniversary year and join the conversation about our plans for City Eye at Studio 144.

Come along and discover how we can support your filmmaking, tell us what you would like to see and do, discover what is in store for Southampton Film Week 2016 - and beyond!

We are eager also to hear your stories about City Eye's past, so if you have been involved in any way please come and share your story or drop us an email.

This event is free but it would be great to have an idea of numbers so please email admin@city-eye.co.uk to let us know if you are planning to attend.

If you attended this event and wish to continue a conversation further, have thought of something new you would like to discuss or if you couldn't make it but still wish to talk to City Eye about plans for Studio 144 click here.​

​Get Carter & Post Show Q&A

​A dark and stylish new adaptation of the classic Newcastle-noir thriller.

Set in the hard and uncompromising world of 1960s Newcastle rife with crime, sex, gambling and violence this adaptation tells the story made famous in Mike Hodge’s seminal film starring Michael Caine in the lead role.Jack Carter is back home for the first time in years. He’s back to bury a brother who hated him, in a town he swore he was never going to see again. He’s back to find out who killed his brother, to pay debts and settle scores.

On Wednesday 27th April there will be a special post-show Q&A.

"This riveting production takes a piece of iconic cinema and transforms it into a theatrical experience of the highest order" ★★★★★ The Independent

"Intense, gritty, tenacious" ★★★★★ Reviews Hub​Find out more and book ticketshere

Date26th - 30th AprilPost-show Q&A:Wed 27 April

VenueNuffield TheatreUniversity RoadSouthampton SO17 1TR

​Director Q&A Screening

Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg?

Feel-good family entertainment! An exciting and fun-packed adventure for everyone age 6 to 106! On their summer camp holiday, four misfit kids suspect that the park’s mascot has been murdered but no-one believes them so they set out to investigate Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg? These four kids BILLIE, THE COLONEL, WOODY and SHIV immediately suspect the camp’s new manager DIANE (played by Bonnie Wright - Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter) and they try to build their evidence. But the kids get quickly in over their heads and they realise they’re going to have to use all their childlike savvy if they’re going to solve this crime! A film full of comedy, action and intrigue that takes place on Dorset’s stunning Jurassic coastline, and the gang learn the importance of true friendship along the way.

​At this screening there'll be a special Q&A with the directors of the film, Tim Clague and Danny Stack.

The Hampshire Picture Co ​

Two-Day Continuity Workshop with Hollywood Industry expert, Caroline Sax​Designed for anyone who is interesting in making films. Continuity is the backbone of filmmaking and it’s essential that whatever you wish to do, you learn it’s importance. In addition, it’s a great career especially if you’d rather go into the film industry young and graduate to working on Hollywood features. You will be amazed.

Participants will be working with a short film script to explore how to create strange and wonderful characters or animatronics with blood and gore as well as VFX. The day includes a panel discussion tutorial and practical demonstrations.

One Day Producers workshop:​Are you about to make a short film or even a feature? Are you wanting to know how to produce it Guerrilla-style? Then this interactive workshop is a must. Caroline Sax and Chantelle de Carvalho who recently held a Masterclass for The Hampshire Picture Co, will be going through what a producer has to know and be able to do from A to Z. How to option source material. How to work with a writer. How to put a package together and submit to finance. Looking at different finance models. How to approach and contract cast. How to budget. How to schedule. How to negotiate with crew. What pitfalls to be aware of. Setting up a production office. How to function during shooting. Preparing for Post Production.

The nature of one day is that we will have to schedule it very tightly. If anyone feels they need longer on a specific part of these workshops, like budgeting for example, we will set up another workshop to go through this.